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WD WD20PURX

Purple 2TB (2014)

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Release date: Q3 2014.

Average Bench: 66.8% (152nd of 1015)

more Based on 17,893 user benchmarks.  Models: WDC WD20PURX-64P6ZY0, WDC WD20 PURX-78P6ZYO, WDC WD20 PURX-64PFUY0, WDC WD20PURX-64P6ZY0B1, WDC WD20PURX-89P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-78AKYY0, WD20PURX-68P8ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-08U6AA0, WD20PURX-08EUEE, WDC WD20PURX-25T0FY0, WDC WD20PURX-64E5EYO, WDC WD20PURX-64GVNY0, WDC WD20PURX-64P6ZYO, WDC WD20PURX-64P, WDC WD20PURX-70P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-78P6ZYO, WDC WD20PURX-64N96Y0, WDC WD20PURX-69PFUY0, WDC WD20PURX-78P, WDC WD20 PURX-78P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-64P6EY0, WDC WD20PURX-89P6ZYO, WDC WD20PURX-85D8PB0, WDC WD20PURX-64EFGY0, WDC WD20 PURX-64GVNY0, WD20PURX-64P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-78P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-64A, WDC WD20PURX-64P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-64E5EY0, WDC WD20 PURX-64P6ZY0, WD20PURX-64GVNY0, WDC WD20PURX-64D85Y0, WDC WD20PURX-64GVNYO, WDC WD20PURX-74P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-60P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-64VNY0, WD20PURX-64D85Y0, WDC WD20PURX-78P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-64PFUY0, WDC WD20PURX-64AKYY0, WDC WD20 PURX-64AKYY0, WDC WD20 PURX-89P6ZY0, WDC WD20PURX-89P

The WD Purple is a surveillance drive with low power consumption and a design that's optimized for 24x7 operation. There is actually little beyond marketing that separates the Purple from the Red and Green drives. They all share almost identical hardware. The thing that does differentiate the Purple drives is their firmware which supports AllFrame, a surveillance specific feature. Allframe handles the cache in a way that is optimized for video streams. The AllFrame technology however is only enabled when used in conjunction with a supported host controller, most of which are only found in dedicated NVR (Network Video Recording) devices. As a result there is no benefit in using this drive in a HTPC to record video streams, because the surveillance specific functions won't be enabled. In terms of effective speed the Purple lags the new Red and Green drives by around 26%. [Oct '14 HDrivePro]

Poor: 39%Average: 66.8% Great: 87%

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Above average average bench

The WD Purple 2TB (2014) averaged 33.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.89MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 2.24MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the WD Purple 2TB (2014) is 48.8%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the WD Purple 2TB (2014) performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 63.1MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 115MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 17,893 samples)
Rank 15266.8%
Min Avg Max
67.3 Read 118 154
68.1 Write 116 147
33.7 Mixed 63.1 79.1
56.3 SusWrite 115 151
75.3% 103 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.5 4K Read 0.74 0.9
0.69 4K Write 2.24 2.7
0.5 4K Mixed 0.89 1
171% 1.29 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2TB free
Firmware: 80.00A80
SusWrite @10s intervals: 146 146 148 149 148 149 MB/s
83.5% Excellent
Read 143
Write 136
Mixed 71.7
SusWrite 148
91% 125 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 1
188% 1.3 MB/s
1TB free
Firmware: 80.00A80
SusWrite @10s intervals: 120 124 123 124 124 123 MB/s
72.4% Very good
Read 129
Write 124
Mixed 68.2
SusWrite 123
81% 111 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2.6
4K Mixed 1
188% 1.43 MB/s
974GB free
Firmware: 80.00A80
SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 116 124 123 123 123 MB/s
68.2% Good
Read 116
Write 112
Mixed 63
SusWrite 121
75% 103 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2.4
4K Mixed 1
185% 1.37 MB/s
1.5TB free
Firmware: 80.00A80
SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 121 122 122 123 122 MB/s
67.5% Good
Read 114
Write 105
Mixed 67.4
SusWrite 121
75% 102 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2.7
4K Mixed 0.9
179% 1.43 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 44,760,939 HDDs tested.

 Prices

MSRP ≈ $93 @ launch in Jul '14
BHPhotoUS $805 years
EbayUS $888 days
AmazonUS $1358 mins
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Gaming
Gaming 31%
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Desktop 80%
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Workstation
Workstation 29%
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME A320M-K - $65

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $290Bench 76%, 754,540 samples6,646x
Ryzen 3 3200GAMD  $290Bench 69%, 69,497 samples6,224x
Ryzen 3 2200GAMD  $104Bench 67%, 150,680 samples5,191x
GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $155Bench 31%, 870,997 samples4,401x
RX 570AMD  $150Bench 46%, 398,419 samples4,010x
Radeon Vega 8 GraphicsAMDBench 11%, 110,781 samples3,422x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $30Bench 66%, 390,171 samples3,302x
A400 120GBKingston  $25Bench 60%, 161,804 samples1,475x
A400 480GBKingston  $49Bench 74%, 217,087 samples1,315x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $68Bench 85%, 598,699 samples1,060x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 74,044 samples978x
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX  $81Bench 80%, 138,225 samples914x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 67% - Good Total price: $608

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